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The ‘Collective Focus’ Continues

A local mutual aid group celebrates its third anniversary

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The ‘Collective Focus’ Continues

A local mutual aid group celebrates its third anniversary

The ‘Collective Focus’ Continues

“I’ve watched people go from strangers to becoming best friends here,” Briana Calderón Navarro told me upon the three year anniversary of the mutual aid organization she co-founded three years ago, based at 1046 Broadway. To note the occasion, the group had put up a free event at nearby Herbert Von King Park and Magnolia Tree Earth Center this past Earth Day. 

Collective Focus and Magnolia Tree Earth Center had connected on social media last year when Crystal Jeffrey-Brusche, who…

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